How we became our data : a genealogy of the informational person / Colin Koopman.
How we became our data : a genealogy of the informational person / Colin Koopman.
How we became our data : a genealogy of the informational person / Colin Koopman.
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2019/4124
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: initialization -- Informational persons and our information politics -- Histories of information -- Inputs. "Human bookkeeping": the informatics of documentary identity, 1913-1937 -- Processes. Algorithmic personality: the informatics of psychological traits, 1917-1937 -- Outputs. Segr...
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2019.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who are meticulously recorded in state surveillance dossiers and online marketing databases? What is th...
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How we became our data : a genealogy of the informational person / Colin Koopman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Text in English.
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©2019
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G 2019/4124
Record Identifier
74VKVlVPbNmZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVlVPbNmZ
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ISBN
9780226626444 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
022662644X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226626581 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
022662658X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
DDC
303.4833
MMS ID
991024261615902626
